Headliner:“Advancing European Health Amidst Global Crisis” - by Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization
“The Human Right to H20: The Debate over Water Privatization” - by Madeline Christensen | Tufts University
“Secular Education: A Peace-building strategy in Afghanistan” - by Casandra Schneider | University of Georgia
“What happened to verification? Building a biological weapons convention, 1967-1972″ - by Harrison Monsky | Yale University
American Aid in Haiti: What motivates action?” - by Andrew Heinrich | Columbia University
“Breakdown of Authoritarian Rule: Egyptian and Tunisian Revolutions during the ‘Arab Spring’” - Allison Cantrell | Rhodes College
“Core vs. Periphery: Exploring the structure of economic integration with the Eurozone” - by Noah Rosenthal | The Wharton School
“Turkish-Israeli Relations: The unraveling of a remarkable alliance” - by Etan Raskas | University of Pennsylvania
“The Fukushima Crisis and its effects on Japan’s nuclear relations” - by Andrew Ju | University of Southern California
“Failure to Launch: The curious case for the second Lebanon War” - James Mao | Swarthmore College
“Interests and power in the International Criminal Court: Strengthening international legal norms within a sovereign state system” - Alice Xie | University of Pennsylvania
Headliner:“Preparing for the Next Generation of Leaders: Looking to the Future, Lessons from the Past”
by José María Aznar | Former Prime Minister of Spain
“A Wary Dalliance: How Human RIghts Issues Heighten the Ambivalent Relationship between the United States and China”
by Charmaine Hung | University of Pennsylvania
“A Game-Theory Analysis of US Efforts to Curb the Colombian Cocaine Trade”
by Saumil Jariwala | University of Pennsylvania
“Iraq from 1972-1975: A Case-Study of Power Dynamics in the Cold War”
by Anna Thiergartner | The George Washington University
“German Attitudes towards Islam and the Threat to Liberal Democracy”
by David Stern | Tufts University
“Analyzing the Causes of the Suez War Through the Lens of Realism”
by Morris Breitbart | Princeton University
“Senegal and Guinea: A Comparative Study of Democratic Success and Failures”
by Jessica LeBlanc | University of New Hampshire
“HIV Crisis: Stigma and Social Inequalities”
by Lorein Abenhaim | Syracuse University
“Why Neoliberalism? The Economic Reasoning behind Post-Apartheid South Africa”
by Rachel Bonds | University of Georgia
“NGO and MNC Relationships in the Global Community”
by Jenny Tai | University of Pennsylvania
Headliner:“Wars of Necessity, Wars of Choice Reconsidered”
by Richard Haass | President of the Council on Foreign Relations
“Baha’i Identity in Islamic Iran”
by Alexandra Leavy | University of Pennsylvania
“Resistance and Popular Front: The Push for a National Communist Party in Italy and France”
by Peter Ceretti | University of Pennsylvania
“Economic Sanctions: an Effective Tool for Influencing International Behavior in the Twenty-First Century”
by JoAnna Tonini | University of Pennsylvania
“Biological Weapons and the Future of Biosecurity: Recommendations and Prevention and Nonproliferation”
by Cory Siskind | Tufts University
“We’re Not in Hollywood Anymore: The Effects of Climate Change on Migration”
by Amjad L. Asad | University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The U.S. Naval Question in Southeast Asia”
by Brian Chao | Dartmouth College
“Czechoslovakia From Totalitarianism to Democracy: Difficulties in Transition”
by Joshua C. Roberts | University of Pennsylvania
“Self-Determination, Secession, and Sovereignty: South Ossetia’s Claim to Right of External Self-Determination and International Law”
by Irina Kotchach | University of Pennsylvania
“The Effect of Industrial Agriculture on the Health of Latin American Peasant Farming Communities”
by Elena Blebea | University of Pennsylvania
Headliner:“Securing Development”
by Robert B. Zoellick | President of World Bank
“Catholic-Muslim Relations in Melilla: A Study of Changing Relations Following Spain’s Decisions to Join the European Community in 1985”
by Jamie Albers | University of Pennsylvania
“Definitions of Integration: A Survey of the Socio-cultural Climate Surrounding Integration in Denmark”
by Claire W. Bickel | Washington State University
“Domestic and Internatoinal Political Realities and the Creation of Hybrid War Crimes Tribunals: Case Studies of the SCSL and the ECCC”
by Valerie Huber | Bradley University
“Hitching with the Hegemon: Arab State Bandwagoning, 1990 to the Present”
by Kailash Srinivasan | University of California-Davis
“Feminism in Microfinance”
by Emily Stuba | Bradley University
“Opportunity or Diversion: Venezuela’s Mobilization of Troops in the Andean Diplomatic Crisis”
by Nich Welch | Tufts University
“Climate Change, Violence, and National Security: Hot Topics in a Warming World”
by Jason Yeager | Tufts University
Headliner: Franklin L. Lavin | Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
“Brazil’s Contemporary Foreign Policy towards Africa”
by Rachel Doelling | Loyola University Chicago
“The Berlin Connection: Locating German-Iranian Relations Within Current Understandings of Post-Unification German Foreign Policy”
by Benjamin E. Power | University of Michigan
“Darfur, Sudan: The Question of Genocide”
by Michael Zanchelli | James Madison University
“Understanding U.S. Withdrawal from the Kyoto Protocol”
by Kristin Sulewski | Michigan State University
“How to Rebuild: Understanding the Importance of Culture and Economics in Reconstruction Efforts in Iraq”
by Nada Zodhy | Michigan State University
“US Foreign Policy and the Resurgence of Economic Sanctions”
by Patrick E. Shea | Fordham University
Headliner: Richard A. Clarke “Two Sides of Globalization”
“Technology Transfer to Developing Nations: A Review of Frameworks in the Literature and the Proposal of a New Framework”
by Clifford Jones | University of Pennsylvania
“A Rosier Future For ‘Rosas’: Crackdown on the Men Who ‘Own’ Them”
by Monica Hortobagyi | Loyola University of Chicago
“Understanding Terrorism: A Political Response to a Social Phenomenon”
by Dan Tavana | University of Pennsylvania
“Transnational Organized Crime: Its Globalized Roots and the Need for a Globalized Solution”
by Kimberly Hsu | University of Pennsylvania
“Necessary Measures in Dealing with the Commercial Use of Outer Space”
by Danielle Vasilescu | University of Pennsylvania
“The Complex Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan: Context and Options”
by Mark Robert Brennan | James Madison University
“The Nagas of India: A Struggle for Self-Determination”
by Julia Nelson | Baylor University
“The Social Effects of the Asian Financial Crisis on Korea”
by Kevin Lau | University of Pennsylvania
“The Impact of Iran’s Bushehr Reactor on U.S.-Russian Relations and U.S. Policy Options”
by Breck D. Heidlberg | University of South Carolina
“Joining the Club: Contemporary Identity Crisis in Turkey, Effects on EU prospects”
by Charles Maffey | University of Pennsylvania
“Impasse or Opportunity? Relations between Iran and the United States”
by Samier Ahsan Mansur | James Madison University
“Hamas and Violence: A Comparative Analysis of Islamist Movements”
by Nathan Piper | University of Pennsylvania
“Islam and the Nation-State in Southeast Asia: The Defeat of Political Islam?”
by Edward W. Wee | University of Pennsylvania
“Laos: A Study of the Last Dinosaur in Southeast Asia”
by Robert Burritt | James Madison University
“Oppositional Politics in the Narmada Valley”
by Eamon Lorincz | University of Pennsylvania
“Does External Income Really Result in State Autonomy?”
by Neil F. Rudisill | University of Pennsylvania
“An Evaluation of U.S. Actions Along Its Southern Border: An Examination of International Legal Obligations”
by Dillon M. Kuehn | University of Pennsylvania
“Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: The Pashtunistan Frontier Dispute”
by Megha Narayan | University of Pennsylvania
“Balancing Acts: A Comparative Look at National Security and Civil Liberties”
by Kevin Cronin | Michigan State University
“An Analysis of the International Court of Justice’s Decision on the U.S. v. Iran (1979)”
by Joseph H. Fitzgerald | Brigham Young University
“France: NATO or the EU”
by Andrea Friesen | James Madison University
“The Economic Context for the North Korean Nuclear Program”
by Joseph M. Kessel | University of Pennsylvania
“The International Criminal Court, International Criminal Law and State Sovereignty in the 21st Century”
by Alexandre A. Adriano | University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh
“U.S. Ratification of the International Criminal Court”
by Kathryn Schiele | James Madison University
“Internal Migration and Subsidies in Norway”
by Harald Havnen | University of Pennsylvania
“The Course of Political Development in Uganda and its Effects on Economic Development”
by Kristin Leefers | Michigan State University
“China’s National Interests and International Agricultural Trade”
by Sean J. Murphy | University of Pennsylvania
“On the Way to Development: A Comparative Study of Belarus & South Korea”
by Maksim Piskunov | University of Pennsylvania
